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For 40 years, IBM and SAP® have worked together to create powerful business solutions, delivering differentiating advantages that can help you align and integrate your processes, communicate with employees, partners, suppliers and customers in new ways, improve efficiency, and fully utilize your IT investment to increase the value of your business. Whether your business supports a high-performance data center or a small office with limited IT skills, IBM offers a large portfolio of System x® and BladeCenter® servers for your diverse SAP workloads.
Business Intelligence and Analytics:
IBM Systems solution for SAP HANA provides preconfigured, preloaded server models optimized by IBM and certified by SAP to help you instantly access, model and analyze all of your company’s SAP transactional and analytical data from virtually any data source in real time, in a single environment, without impacting existing applications or systems.
IBM Systems solution for SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse Accelerator provides a prepackaged BladeCenter solution that can help extend your business insight by turning massive amounts of data into valuable information faster than you ever imagined.
Industry specific solutions for small and mid-sized businesses:
IBM x86 solutions for SAP Business All-in-One Fast-Start can help speed the implementation of SAP business applications—at a price small and mid-sized businesses can afford—with the SAP Business All-in-One software pre-tested and pre-configured on select x86 systems.
Resources
Learn more about SAP software on IBM System x and IBM BladeCenter servers.
Papers
Analyst papers
- Alinean Whitepaper - Server Consolidation for SAP ERP on IBM eX5 enterprise systems lowering TCO (274KB)
- Edison Group Whitepaper: IBM System x Superiority of the IBM eX5 Systems for Virtualized SAP Environments (984KB)
- Solitaire Interglobal SAP Performance on IBM eX5 Systems (1.25MB)
Technical papers
- Performance and scalability of SAP Convergent Invoicing application with IBM Workload Optimized Solutions and IBM Easy Tier
- Private Cloud for SAP Infrastructure as a Service solution on IBM System x and IBM BladeCenter (841KB)
- BigX – An IBM solution for SAP landscapes on Linux that helps reduce complexity, improve utilization, and cut costs (1.02MB)
- SAP Implementation and Operation in Integrated Environments - The IBM Blue Stack Proof of Concept combines IBM System x, XIV and DB2 on Linux and VMware to provide superior business performance and reduced operational effort
- Solution briefs
- Scale SAP Applications with IBM System x and Juniper Networks (429KB)
- Analyze transactional business operations in real time with the IBM Systems solution for SAP HANA (218KB)
- Virtualize, consolidate and scale SAP with IBM System x and eX5 (192KB)
- Virtualization of SAP Applications with VMware vSphere on IBM System x® 3850 X5 (3.26MB)
- The Benefits of Running SAP Solutions on IBM eX5 Systems
- SAP applications on IBM BladeCenter (175KB)
- SAP Business Suite on IBM System x and IBM BladeCenter (257KB)
- SAP Business All-in-One on IBM System x and IBM BladeCenter (284KB)
- SAP Business One on IBM System x and IBM BladeCenter (269KB)
- SAP on IBM System x® 3650 M3 with the Intel® Xeon® Processor 5600 Series (162KB)
- Technical resources
Benchmark information
- IBM System x® benchmark results for SAP
- IBM BladeCenter® benchmark results
- SAP benchmark information
Tested servers
- IBM x86 servers with Microsoft Windows for SAP applications
- IBM x86 servers with Linux for SAP applications
- IBM x86 servers with Solaris for SAP applications
Sizing guides
Find the server to handle your specific application requirements.
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